Patents by Inventor Lawrence Birnbaum

Lawrence Birnbaum has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20250045322
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are example embodiments that describe how a narrative generation techniques can be used in connection with data visualization tools to automatically generate narratives that explain the information conveyed by a visualization of a data set. In example embodiments, new data structures and artificial intelligence (AI) logic can be used by narrative generation software to map different types of visualizations to different types of story configurations that will drive how narrative text is generated by the narrative generation software.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Daniel Joseph Platt, Mauro Eduardo Ignacio Mujica-Parodi, III, Lawrence A. Birnbaum, Alexander Rudolf Sippel, Jonathan Alden Drake, Peter Horace Sherman
  • Publication number: 20250036888
    Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) technology can be used process natural language statements to facilitate the automated generation of narratives about data sets that achieve a desired communication goal without any need for a user to directly author computer code. This AI technology permits NLG systems to determine the appropriate content for inclusion in the narrative in a manner that will satisfy the desired communication goal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew R. Paley, Nathan Drew Nichols, Matthew Lloyd Trahan, Maia Jane Lewis Meza, Lawrence A. Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond
  • Patent number: 12153618
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are example embodiments that describe how a narrative generation techniques can be used in connection with data visualization tools to automatically generate narratives that explain the information conveyed by a visualization of a data set. In example embodiments, new data structures and artificial intelligence (AI) logic can be used by narrative generation software to map different types of visualizations to different types of story configurations that will drive how narrative text is generated by the narrative generation software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Joseph Platt, Mauro Eduardo Ignacio Mujica-Parodi, III, Lawrence A. Birnbaum, Alexander Rudolf Sippel, Jonathan Alden Drake, Peter Horace Sherman
  • Patent number: 12086562
    Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) technology can be used process natural language statements to facilitate the automated generation of narratives about data sets that achieve a desired communication goal without any need for a user to directly author computer code. This AI technology permits NLG systems to determine the appropriate content for inclusion in the narrative in a manner that will satisfy the desired communication goal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew R. Paley, Nathan Drew Nichols, Matthew Lloyd Trahan, Maia Jane Lewis Meza, Lawrence A. Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond
  • Publication number: 20240184832
    Abstract: Example embodiments are disclosed where a narrative generation platform is integrated with a conversational interface such as a Chatbot to support interactive and dynamic narrative generation in response to speech inputs from users. Such a system can be further integrated with a visualization platform to allow the speech input through the conversational interface to interactively and dynamically focus and control visualizations and/or narratives that accompany the visualizations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: Narrative Science LLC
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond
  • Patent number: 11989659
    Abstract: Artificial intelligence methods and systems for triggering the generation of narratives are disclosed. Specific embodiments relate to real-time evaluation and automated generation of narrative stories based on received data. For example, data can be tested against data representative of a plurality of story angles to determine whether a narrative story incorporating one or more such story angles is to be automatically generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Nichols, Michael Justin Smathers, Lawrence Birnbaum, Kristian Hammond, Lawrence E. Adams
  • Patent number: 11922344
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments described herein are related to techniques for automatically generating narratives about data based on communication goal data structures that are associated with configurable content blocks. The use of such communication goal data structures facilitates modes of operation whereby narratives can be generated in real-time and/or interactive manners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Narrative Science LLC
    Inventors: Lawrence Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond, Nathan Drew Nichols, Andrew R. Paley
  • Patent number: 11790164
    Abstract: The subject invention functions to use available data and information to automatically create narrative stories that describes domain events, circumstances and/or entities in a comprehensible and compelling and audience customized, manner. Computer executable instructions provide for generating a narrative story using standard and uniform structures and data for receiving domain related data and a story specification, parsing the story specification to provide constituent components, transforming the constituent components into executable code, instantiating content blocks having at least one feature for the domain according to the story specification and rendering the narrative story using the constituent components specified by the content blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Narrative Science Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Drew Nichols, Lawrence A. Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond
  • Patent number: 11741301
    Abstract: A system and method for automatically generating a narrative story receives data and information pertaining to a domain event. The received data and information and/or one or more derived features are then used to identify a plurality of angles for the narrative story. The plurality of angles is then filtered, for example through use of parameters that specify a focus for the narrative story, length of the narrative story, etc. Points associated with the filtered plurality of angles are then assembled and the narrative story is rendered using the filtered plurality of angles and the assembled points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Narrative Science Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond, Nicholas D. Allen, John R. Templon
  • Publication number: 20230109572
    Abstract: Artificial intelligence methods and systems for triggering the generation of narratives are disclosed. Specific embodiments relate to real-time evaluation and automated generation of narrative stories based on received data. For example, data can be tested against data representative of a plurality of story angles to determine whether a narrative story incorporating one or more such story angles is to be automatically generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Nathan Nichols, Michael Justin Smathers, Lawrence Birnbaum, Kristian Hammond, Lawrence E. Adams
  • Publication number: 20230053724
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments described herein are related to techniques for automatically generating narratives about data based on communication goal data structures that are associated with configurable content blocks. The use of such communication goal data structures facilitates modes of operation whereby narratives can be generated in real-time and/or interactive manners.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Lawrence Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond, Nathan Drew Nichols, Andrew R. Paley
  • Publication number: 20230027421
    Abstract: Example embodiments are disclosed where a narrative generation platform is integrated with a conversational interface such as a Chatbot to support interactive and dynamic narrative generation in response to speech inputs from users. Such a system can be further integrated with a visualization platform to allow the speech input through the conversational interface to interactively and dynamically focus and control visualizations and/or narratives that accompany the visualizations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond
  • Patent number: 11521079
    Abstract: Method and Apparatus for Triggering the Automatic Generation of Narratives Artificial intelligence methods and systems for triggering the generation of narratives are disclosed. Specific embodiments relate to real-time evaluation and automated generation of narrative stories based on received data. For example, data can be tested against data representative of a plurality of story angles to determine whether a narrative story incorporating one or more such story angles is to be automatically generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Narrative Science Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Nichols, Michael Justin Smathers, Lawrence Birnbaum, Kristian Hammond, Lawrence E. Adams
  • Patent number: 11501220
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments described herein are related to techniques for automatically generating narratives about data based on communication goal data structures that are associated with configurable content blocks. The use of such communication goal data structures facilitates modes of operation whereby narratives can be generated in real-time and/or interactive manners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Narrative Science Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond, Nathan Drew Nichols, Andrew R. Paley
  • Patent number: 11475076
    Abstract: Example embodiments are disclosed where a narrative generation platform is integrated with a conversational interface such as a Chatbot to support interactive and dynamic narrative generation in response to speech inputs from users. Such a system can be further integrated with a visualization platform to allow the speech input through the conversational interface to interactively and dynamically focus and control visualizations and/or narratives that accompany the visualizations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: NARRATIVE SCIENCE INC.
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond
  • Publication number: 20220284195
    Abstract: To provide users with more flexibility for focusing and controlling visualizations of data, the inventors disclose new data structures and artificial intelligence logic that can be utilized in conjunction with notional specifications of focus criteria for visualizations. In an example embodiment, the inventors disclose technology that can be used to generate data structures that represent notional characteristics of the visualization data which in turn can be tied to specific elements of the visualization data to support interactive focusing of visualizations in notional terms that correspond to interesting aspects of the data. This allows a user to specify using notional criteria how a visualization should be focused on specific elements without needing to know in advance what those specific elements are.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Daniel Joseph Platt, Alexander Rudolf Sippel, Mauro Eduardo Ignacio Mujica-Parodi, III, Kathryn McCarthy Hughes, Bo He, Lawrence A. Birnbaum
  • Patent number: 11341338
    Abstract: To provide users with more flexibility for focusing and controlling visualizations of data, the inventors disclose new data structures and artificial intelligence logic that can be utilized in conjunction with notional specifications of focus criteria for visualizations. In an example embodiment, the inventors disclose technology that can be used to generate data structures that represent notional characteristics of the visualization data which in turn can be tied to specific elements of the visualization data to support interactive focusing of visualizations in notional terms that correspond to interesting aspects of the data. This allows a user to specify using notional criteria how a visualization should be focused on specific elements without needing to know in advance what those specific elements are.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: NARRATIVE SCIENCE INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Joseph Platt, Alexander Rudolf Sippel, Mauro Eduardo Ignacio Mujica-Parodi, III, Kathryn McCarthy Hughes, Bo He, Lawrence A. Birnbaum
  • Publication number: 20220114206
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are example embodiments that describe how a narrative generation techniques can be used in connection with data visualization tools to automatically generate narratives that explain the information conveyed by a visualization of a data set. In example embodiments, new data structures and artificial intelligence (AI) logic can be used by narrative generation software to map different types of visualizations to different types of story configurations that will drive how narrative text is generated by the narrative generation software.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Daniel Joseph Platt, Mauro Eduardo Ignacio Mujica-Parodi, III, Lawrence A. Birnbaum, Alexander Rudolf Sippel, Jonathan Alden Drake, Peter Horace Sherman
  • Patent number: 11288328
    Abstract: Example embodiments are disclosed where a narrative generation platform is integrated with a conversational interface such as a Chatbot to support interactive and dynamic narrative generation in response to speech inputs from users. Such a system can be further integrated with a visualization platform to allow the speech input through the conversational interface to interactively and dynamically focus and control visualizations and/or narratives that accompany the visualizations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: NARRATIVE SCIENCE INC.
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond
  • Patent number: 11238090
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are example embodiments that describe how a narrative generation techniques can be used in connection with data visualization tools to automatically generate narratives that explain the information conveyed by a visualization of a data set. In example embodiments, new data structures and artificial intelligence (AI) logic can be used by narrative generation software to map different types of visualizations to different types of story configurations that will drive how narrative text is generated by the narrative generation software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: NARRATIVE SCIENCE INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Joseph Platt, Mauro Eduardo Ignacio Mujica-Parodi, III, Lawrence A. Birnbaum, Alexander Rudolf Sippel, Jonathan Alden Drake, Peter Horace Sherman